Toshiba Corporation today announced that Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. , a US subsidiary based in Orange County, CA, has sold its Irvine campus to LBA Realty, LLC for US$65 million on November 30, 2016.

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TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today broke ground on a new Hydrogen Application Center at its Fuchu Complex in western Tokyo. Scheduled to start operation in April 2017, the center will be built around a newly designed H2One™ hydrogen power system that will use renewable energy to produce hydrogen and supply it to fuel-cell powered forklifts operating in Fuchu Complex.

Toshiba Corporation today announced its consolidated results for the first six months (April-September) and the second quarter (July-September) of fiscal year (FY) 2016, ending March 31, 2017. All comparisons in the following are based on the same period a year earlier, unless otherwise stated.

Toshiba Corporation today announced the outline schedule for the construction of a state-of-the-art fabrication facility at Yokkaichi Operations in Mie, Japan, for expanded production of BiCS FLASH, its proprietary 3D Flash memory. It will reinforce flash memory development by also constructing Memory R&D center.

TOKYO – Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced the following revision to its business forecasts for the twelve months (April-March) of FY2016, ending March 31, 2017, in addition to the business forecasts revision for the six months (April-September) of FY2016 which the Company announced on October 31.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that Toshiba Hydro Power (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. , a Chinese subsidiary that manufactures, sells and maintains hydroelectric equipment, has won a major order to supply five 55.6-megawatt bulb hydro turbines and related generating equipment to the Qian Wei Hydroelectric Power Plant in Leshan, Sichuan, China.

Toshiba announced the launch of SPINEX, a new Internet of Things (IoT) architecture that it will apply to its main business domains in social infrastructure, energy and storage business, and to the reinforcement of its presence in the high growth IoT market. The company aims to expand Toshiba Group’s IoT related sales to approx. 2 billion US dollar by 2020, double current sales.

Toshiba Corporation today shipped a 25MW gross electric (50MWth) turbine to the world’s first direct-fired supercritical oxy-combustion CO2 power cycle generation system demonstration plant, now being built in Texas in the United States.

Toshiba Corporation today announced the market launch of GridDB Vector Edition, a high-speed database that applies vector analysis to big data sets. GridDB integrates the data analysis technology Toshiba announced in May, including the ability to find the image of a single individual in a database of 10 million photographs in only 8.31 milliseconds.

A deep learning testbed jointly developed with Dell Technologies has become the first deep learning platform to be approved by Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). Toshiba will introduce the deep learning testbed in its Smart Community Center in Kawasaki, Japan, and use it in the period to September 2017 to evaluate data amassed in the Center.

DENSO Corporation and Toshiba Corporation have reached a basic agreement to jointly develop an artificial intelligence technology called Deep Neural Network-Intellectual Property (DNN-IP), which will be used in image recognition systems which have been independently developed by the two companies to help achieve advanced driver assistance and automated driving technologies.

BT and Toshiba today opened the UK’s first secure quantum communication showcase at BT’s research and development centre in Ipswich.
The showcase sees the two companies demonstrate cutting edge quantum cryptography, which can be used to protect digital information transported within banks and financial services organisations from hacking.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will close “Toshiba Clean Room Farm Yokosuka” in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture and end production of lettuce and other leaf vegetables by the end of the year, in line with its policy of concentrating resources on focus businesses.

TOKYO—A joint proposal by Toshiba Corporation, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. and Iwatani Corporation on the development of technologies for hydrogen energy systems was today selected for funding by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization .

Toshiba Corporation and the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) have developed a novel tumor tracking technology for heavy-ion radiotherapy equipment that accurately tracks tumor motion caused by respiration